CLINICAL NEUROSURGERY PROCEEDINGS Excellence in Spinal Neurosurgery
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The New Oxford English Dictionary defines excellence as ‘‘the possession chiefly of good qualities in an eminent or unusual degree surpassing merit or skill.’’ The definition of medicine is ‘‘the art of restoring and preserving health.’’ Consequently, excellence in medicine is the art of restoring and preserving health with surpassing merit or skill. For patients, the price of mediocrity is high if it means morbidity or mortality. Therefore, the cost of mediocrity, in both human and financial terms, is higher than the cost of excellence. Nonetheless, the financial cost of pursuing excellence, particularly when it involves sophisticated methods of diagnosis and treatment, can be high and somehow must be reconciled with the total resources available for health care. Excellence does not translate to the same objective in every situation. The excellence, ie, the goal, of a spine surgeon is not that of a vascular surgeon. The excellence of an internal medicine doctor is not that of a pediatrician. The definition of excellence or the pursuit of excellence involves a struggle to obtain mastery or complete control of doing something considered imminently worth doing. My definition includes that aspect of excellence, but I also define excellence in spinal neurosurgery as a wheel supported by multiple spokes. The spokes consist of leadership, family, physical and mental fitness, mentoring, education, judgment, patient care, research, friendship, obligation to society, and technical mastery.
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تاریخ انتشار 2014